Special conditions were created for cultivating these exotic plants in the Sakarchaginsky district of Mary province of Turkmenistan.
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And they were not mistaken - the plant was able to take root and begin to bear fruit.
Last year, the Ferkhar local economy built a one-hectare greenhouse for bananas, and then seedlings were imported from Turkey.
In addition to its immediate purpose, the greenhouse immediately became a tourist attraction at the local level - after all, before that, no one was engaged in the cultivation of bananas in the country.
The enterprising farmer is going to get about 30-40 tons of tasty and healthy fruits from the first harvest.
In addition to simply eating ripe bananas, they can be used in cooking a wide variety of dishes. Bananas are fried, boiled, moreover, peeled or unpeeled; they can also be dried, canned, used for the production of banana flour, marmalade, syrups and even wines.
The banana varieties used in food are conventionally divided into two groups: dessert, i.e. those that can be eaten raw or dried and plane trees - those that need to be thermally processed before use.
The homeland of bananas is considered the Malay archipelago, where on the islands they were grown and consumed by natives as a supplement to the main fish food.